1916 in art explained
Events from the year 1916 in art.
Events
- February 5 – Cabaret Voltaire is opened by German poet Hugo Ball and his future wife Emmy Hennings in the back room of Ephraim Jan's Holländische Meierei in Zürich; although surviving only until the summer it is pivotal in the creation of Dada. Those who gather here include Marcel Janco, Richard Huelsenbeck, Tristan Tzara, Sophie Taeuber-Arp and Jean Arp.
- February 9 : 6.00 p.m. – Tristan Tzara "founds" Dada (according to Hans Arp).
- March 1 – Liljevalchs konsthall inaugurated in Stockholm.
- May 20 – Boy with Baby Carriage is Norman Rockwell's first cover for The Saturday Evening Post.
- May – Muirhead Bone recruited as a war artist by the British War Propaganda Bureau. At the end of the year, his album of drawings The Western Front begins publication.
- June 16 – Cleveland Museum of Art opens in the United States.
- July 14 – Hugo Ball recites the Dada manifesto in Zürich.
- Summer – Paul Strand experiments with 'straight' abstract photography at Twin Lakes (Connecticut).
- August 31 – Kestnergesellschaft founded in Hanover, Germany.
- September 19 – Edvard Munch's paintings for the Aula (festival hall) of Det Kongelige Frederiks Universitet, Christiania, are inaugurated.
- September 26 – C. R. W. Nevinson's first major single-artist exhibition opens in London.
- November – John Nash arrives with the Artists Rifles in France.
- Vanessa Bell's first single-artist exhibition is staged at Omega Workshops in London.
- Provincial Fine Arts Museum completed in Córdoba, Argentina.
- Gilbert Cannan publishes his novel Mendel: a story of youth, based on the lives of those in his artistic circle of friends with a young Mark Gertler as the central figure, together with Dora Carrington, C. R. W. Nevinson and John Currie.
- Ezra Pound publishes Gaudier-Brzeska: A Memoir.
Works
Births
- January 23 – David Douglas Duncan, American war photographer (died 2018)
- April 11 – Irv Novick, American comic book artist (died 2004)
- April 20 – Gerald Dillon, Irish painter (died 1971)
- April 26 – Eyvind Earle, American illustrator and Disney artist (died 2000)
- June 24 – Saloua Raouda Choucair, Lebanese painter and sculptor (died 2017)
- July 25 – Fred Lasswell, American cartoonist (died 2001)
- September 29 – Carl Giles, English cartoonist (died 1995)
- October 18 – Jean-Yves Couliou, French painter (died 1995)
- November 3 – Harry Lampert, American cartoonist, advertising artist and author (died 2004)
- November 10 – Louis le Brocquy, Irish painter (died 2012)
- November 25 – Villu Toots, Estonian calligrapher, book designer, educator, paleograph and author (died 1993)
- December 7 – John G. Morris, American picture editor (died 2017)
Deaths
- January 17 – Marie Bracquemond, French Impressionist painter (born 1840)
- February 13 – Vilhelm Hammershøi, Danish painter (born 1864)
- March 4 – Franz Marc, German Expressionist painter (born 1880) (killed in action during Battle of Verdun)
- June 25 – Thomas Eakins, American painter, sculptor and teacher (born 1844)
- June 29 – Georges Lacombe, French artist (born 1868)
- July 6 – Odilon Redon, French Symbolist painter and graphic artist (born 1840)
- July 29 – Eleanor Vere Boyle, English watercolorist (born 1825)
- August 17 – Umberto Boccioni, Italian Futurist painter and sculptor (born 1882) (died following a fall during cavalry training)
- August 23 – Jean-Paul Aubé, French sculptor (born 1837)
- August 28 – Henri Harpignies, French landscape painter of the Barbizon school (born 1819)
- October 25 – William Merritt Chase, American Impressionist painter (born 1849)
- December 13 – Antonin Mercié, French sculptor and painter (born 1845)
- date unknown
Notes and References
- Book: Pepper, B.. 1998. The Mosaic of St Aidan's. 119–124. Tate, L. S.. Aspects of Leeds. 1-871647-38-X.
- Web site: St Aidan's Church, Leeds. 2012-06-22.
- Web site: Dream Garden .
